4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 201

Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「夫妻反目」. Explanation below.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「夫妻反目」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Turn against each other: look at each other with disharmony. Refers to the discord and quarrel between husband and wife.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fū qī fǎn mù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu1 chai1 faan2 muk6

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